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- I never thought I'd be here.

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I didn't have any desire
to be some pot healer guy.

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That wasn't what I was trying to do.

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I've done a lot of things in my life,

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and this feels the best.

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(solemn piano music)

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My name's Pete Sais.

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I've been helping people
for about 10 years.

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At 28, I got clean in Narcotics Anonymous,

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and I cut out all drugs,

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every single mind- or
mood-altering substance,

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for about 15 years,

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and then I found out about cannabis,

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and I started helping people.

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When I got to my fourth remission,

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I started using cannabis again myself.

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- And my name is Doctor Sherry Yafai,

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I am an ER doctor,

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who has segued into cannabis work.

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I work with patients with cannabis, only,

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in the office at the Relief Institute

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here in Santa Monica, California.

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When I work with patients with cannabis,

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I try to minimize other medications,

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especially if medications
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side effects, unwanted,
depression, anxiety, et cetera.

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So what we do here in the office

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is focus primarily on using
different parts of the plant

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in different formats, and
different modes of administration,

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to get exactly what we want for patients.

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- My name is Ali Becher.

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I am 36 years old,

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and I have been through cancer

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probably four times.

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- My name is Monica Gray,

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and I'm a breast cancer survivor.

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- Cancer used to be one in
50 people would get cancer.

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And then they outlawed cannabis,

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and now we're one in three
people getting cancer.

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- So I've started all of this
about three or four years ago,

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when two very close family members

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were diagnosed with cancer.

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Both of them were recommended
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to start using cannabis products.

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Both their oncologists say,
you should probably smoke pot,

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and it'll help.

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And that was the end of the conversation.

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And so when I went in
and discussed of of this

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with the oncologist,

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the same question kept coming up.

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Well, what are they supposed to do?

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How are they supposed to do it?

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How often are they supposed to use it?

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What is it good for,
what is it not good for?

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What should we look out for?

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We don't want her to be high all day

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because she's got little kids around.

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How do we do this better?

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And both of them did the same thing,

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they shrugged their shoulders
and they said, I don't know.

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We usually tell people to just Google

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and figure it out for themselves.

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- Every single person I've helped,

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I know would not be here right now,

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if it wasn't for me helping them.

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- It became a big struggle,

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a struggle on the end of how
to take it and when to take it,

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how much to take,

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and what ended up happening,

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which we know happens
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is we went into a quote-unquote pot shop,

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talked to a bud tender,

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who sometimes gave us good advice

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and sometimes didn't give us good advice.

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And that was where I thought,

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if something's so good,

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is being touted by so many
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especially in terms of cancer control,

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or cancer symptomatic treatment control,

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then why is it that we're
not able to do this better?

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And why is it that the physician group,

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the medical-clinical world,

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is turning their backs on these patients?

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And that was what prompted
me to make a change

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in my personal career,

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and my path in understanding all of this.

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- This is my little guy, Jessie,

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and he's a rescue dog,

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very affectionate.

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He just likes being with me.

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- I know a lot of people,

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and I made it to where if I know you,

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and someone you love is sick,

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I'll help them, or if
you're sick I'll help you.

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And it's worked, I've never
had to tell anyone no.

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I'm either here to heal you,

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or ease you out, not the easiest thing.

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- I am a community
advocate in Ventura County,

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and I advocate for patients' rights.

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I thought that I had access to
the best medicine there was.

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I found that I didn't really
know enough to save myself.

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You never really know what you'll do

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when you're given a cancer diagnosis

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until it actually happens to you.

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- It started when I was in college.

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I noticed that I had like a
tiny white bump on my face.

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I was 18 years old,

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and they told me that it was nothing,

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like a cyst, it would go away.

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- I was diagnosed at stage three.

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I had really really large breasts,

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so my doctor kept telling me

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that I just had cystic, or fibrous tissue.

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I just had big lumpy boobs,

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and she told me I was fine.

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- Then three years later,

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I transferred to a four-year university,

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and the bump was still there

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and I felt like it was getting bigger.

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So, I went to a new doctor,

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and they said they didn't
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but they would biopsy it,

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just to see what it was.

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So he called me a few weeks later,

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and said that it was a
rare form of melanoma,

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and that I had to have
surgery to remove it.

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I had the surgery, it
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and then they said I had to do radiation

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because they weren't sure
of they got all of it.

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I was young and dumb, and I didn't know,

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I didn't know any better,

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I just knew that the doctor
was telling me I needed that.

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So, I did it, and then
they kind of assured me,

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and they said that the
cancer won't come back.

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This is it, we took care of it.

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And I said, okay great.

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So I went on with my life,
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and 10 years later, I noticed

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I had kind of a mass growing in my jaw.

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So I went to the doctor,
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"well, it's not your cancer coming back.

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"I would be able to tell,

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"it's definitely not your cancer,

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"you're just being paranoid."

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They gave me antibiotics,

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and like two weeks later the
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The mass was painful.

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So I called the doctor and I said,

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you need to order an actual scan

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because there's something going
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He ordered a scan.

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The scan confirmed there was a large mass.

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And then they said, we
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and then they called me and said

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that the cancer had come
back and it was stage four.

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- By this time the biggest
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and I had three of 'em total.

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They were getting big, fast.

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After all that stress that my
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it was finally like, okay.

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Before they were like
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and she says, they're just
cystic little lumps, it's fine.

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By this time, she was like, okay,

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so she finally got me my test authorized,

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and it was actually the
test that the hospital,

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the individuals that were
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when I told them how
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how long I'd had to wait,

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and also the fact that I
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I asked them, if you feel like

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I need to be advanced to the next round,

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or the next test sooner,

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please help me,

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and they did.

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- And that's when everything
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They said it was like really advanced,

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and they were gonna have to like

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take off half of my face

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to get it under control.

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I just had my last surgery to fix it,

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so you can kind of see.

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Six months ago, this didn't exist.

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This piece of skin right here
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So they had to take a
whole bunch of stuff off.

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But when they did the first surgery

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to take out the jaw mass,

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they told me that they were gonna

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have to take the nerves and the skin

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and basically everything,

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so I would be like a walking skeleton.

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I wouldn't have anything left in my face.

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And I said, can you guarantee

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that it won't come back if you
do that, and he told me, no.

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So I said, I want you to do the,

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I want you to save all
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just save everything that you can.

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So he did.

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He said, "I'm gonna do what you want."

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So it was a 12-hour operation,

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and as you can see,

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I don't have any nerves
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and I don't have a nerve
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so I have an implant in
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That was the surgery, it
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And then they said, okay
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And I said okay,

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so I did chemo for a year.

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A couple of months before
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I noticed that I had a cough,

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and I'm a respiratory therapist,

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and my cough was productive, and wet,

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and I just felt like something was wrong,

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so I told my oncologist.

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I said I think something's wrong,

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he's like, "you're fine."

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So I finished the chemo,
and then two months later,

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he said okay, we're
gonna do a chest X-ray.

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They did a chest X-ray,

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it had metastasized to the lungs.

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- I had a tumor in my kidney in 2012,

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so I went and had a scan,

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and they found a tumor.

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They took out my kidney,

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and they thought they had gotten it all.

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But the cancer had
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The nodules were so small,

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that they gave me a pill
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It was the mildest form.

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- That's their go-to, federally,

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they can't just hand
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That's what they say.

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For everyone, it's almost
like a one-size-fits-all.

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They want you to do chemo,

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they want you to do radiation,

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and if you want surgery,
we'll do that too.

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- I got deathly sick on it.

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So over a matter of about a year,

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I went from 186 pounds

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down to 110.

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Well instead of like on
chemo, people lose their hair.

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My hair thinned out a little bit.

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But say like my tan right
now, say I'm a seven.

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I probably went to a two.

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Or one.

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Anyway, my hair was white.

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And my sister had passed away,

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but when she was in the hospital,

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I went to her to visit her,

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and my nephews, we were
passing each other,

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they didn't recognize me.

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People actually did not recognize me.

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- Chemo sucks.

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Every bite of food feels like sand.

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Water doesn't quench your thirst.

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Losing your hair sucks.

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- I was done.

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I was tired of it.

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- I used to talk to a lot
of patients on the phone

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about their experience
with cancer and chemo,

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and they would always tell me things like,

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it's not the cancer that's
killing me, it's the chemo.

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Our drivers would come back with stories

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of people getting skinnier and skinnier,

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and sicker and sicker.

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It was really hard.

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You tend to absorb a lot
of that kind of stuff

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when you really care about people.

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So when I was diagnosed
it was pretty intense.

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- I was down making a
delivery down in Otay Mesa,

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which is down by San Diego.

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A couple of months before that,

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when I urinated, I saw
a little bit of blood,

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but I just kind of blew it off.

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When I went down that particular night,

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I went to the bathroom,
it was solid blood.

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My wife and I, we were
engaged at the time.

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She lived in Oregon.

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I called her up, and I said
hey I'm urinating blood.

283
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So she looked it up,

284
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and we thought I was passing a stone.

285
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So anyway, one of my buddies I called up,

286
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and I says hey I need to go to the doctor,

287
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and goes, okay we'll go.

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And he took me to emergency.

289
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I told him what was going on,

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and they thought I was passing a stone.

291
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But one of them says, you know what?

292
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We're gonna do a CT scan,

293
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and they came right back
out and just told me,

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you have a tumor.

295
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You know he was just like,

296
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that blunt.

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So I told my wife.

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She says well, we were
planning on getting married.

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As a matter of fact,
yesterday was our anniversary.

300
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We were planning on getting married

301
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later on in the month.

302
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She goes, "I'm coming down now."

303
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So she came down and then,

304
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the day we were supposed to get married

305
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I had my kidney taken out.

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So she was there for me
you know, she was God-sent,

307
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just like Pete.

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- The doctor at that time said,

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"we need to put you on this
treatment to take care of it,

310
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"because this isn't good,
which I already knew."

311
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I told him I wanted another opinion,

312
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that I wanted somebody else to tell me

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that that's what was happening.

314
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So I wanted him to give me his
doctor notes for the visit.

315
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So he gave me the notes
and I picked 'em up,

316
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was reading 'em in the car,

317
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and the note basically said,
"this patient is dying.

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"I've scheduled her for palliative chemo,

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"and there's no hope for her."

320
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(somber piano music)

321
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I started screaming, this guy sucks.

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So I thought, I'm going somewhere else,

323
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and we're getting another opinion,

324
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so I went to a new doctor and he said,

325
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"we can treat this, you are very sick,

326
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"but we can treat this."

327
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The other doctor,

328
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the reason he didn't want
to give me the treatment

329
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that the new doctor gave me,

330
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because he said it was too aggressive.

331
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And I said, I'm 30
years old and I'm dying,

332
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like I don't care.

333
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Like, give me something.

334
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So I did that treatment.

335
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It made me very, very sick.

336
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I'm already pretty thin,

337
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I lost like 20 pounds in two weeks,

338
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and I couldn't keep anything down.

339
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- I only did three treatments of chemo,

340
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and it was under extreme
duress that I did it.

341
00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:26,163
I was actually threatened
with action by DCFS.

342
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They threatened to take my kids,

343
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if I didn't submit to a toxic treatment,

344
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because they said that my
kids would likely suffer more,

345
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watching me get sicker and sicker,

346
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and if I was denying treatment for myself

347
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then that would denote some kind of like

348
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mental deficiency,

349
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and unless you have ever
been forced to do it,

350
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with the knowledge that it also
can cause secondary cancers

351
00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,520
years after, they don't tell you that.

352
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You get advice from well-meaning people

353
00:16:00,710 --> 00:16:02,690
in all corners of your life,

354
00:16:02,740 --> 00:16:04,620
also shaming you and coercing you

355
00:16:04,670 --> 00:16:06,820
and being like you really
should for your kids.

356
00:16:06,870 --> 00:16:08,270
You really should?

357
00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:10,090
You see how it feels.

358
00:16:10,140 --> 00:16:11,990
They make you take shots of stuff

359
00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:12,850
that's supposed to boost

360
00:16:12,900 --> 00:16:15,530
your immune system, called Neulasta,

361
00:16:15,580 --> 00:16:18,790
that will make you sick
almost immediately after.

362
00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,180
It's literally like everything
that they demand that you do,

363
00:16:22,230 --> 00:16:24,150
will make you sicker.

364
00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:25,203
And it feels,

365
00:16:27,100 --> 00:16:29,720
it feels like you're
living in a nightmare.

366
00:16:29,770 --> 00:16:31,547
- They said, "if we keep
giving you this treatment,

367
00:16:31,597 --> 00:16:34,280
"you're gonna die from the treatment."

368
00:16:34,330 --> 00:16:36,247
So they said, "we're gonna
go ahead and stop it."

369
00:16:36,297 --> 00:16:38,400
And I said, okay, great.

370
00:16:38,450 --> 00:16:40,760
And then, I didn't do treatment

371
00:16:40,810 --> 00:16:43,370
for probably four or five months,

372
00:16:43,420 --> 00:16:45,920
and then all the tumors were stable,

373
00:16:45,970 --> 00:16:48,970
they weren't getting better,
but they were just stable,

374
00:16:49,020 --> 00:16:50,220
and then they started getting bigger.

375
00:16:50,270 --> 00:16:54,660
So they said you need
to do a clinical trial.

376
00:16:54,710 --> 00:16:57,690
You've already failed three treatments,

377
00:16:57,740 --> 00:16:59,500
well four treatments.

378
00:16:59,550 --> 00:17:02,000
We're gonna put you on
this clinical trial.

379
00:17:02,050 --> 00:17:02,900
And I said, all right.

380
00:17:02,950 --> 00:17:04,920
There's got to be like something else,

381
00:17:04,970 --> 00:17:07,610
I'm feeling all these like

382
00:17:07,660 --> 00:17:08,923
super-advanced kinds of medicine,

383
00:17:08,973 --> 00:17:10,330
they had all just come out

384
00:17:10,380 --> 00:17:12,450
and they were saying all
these great things about 'em,

385
00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:14,080
but none of them were working for me.

386
00:17:14,130 --> 00:17:16,640
And that's when I contacted Pete.

387
00:17:16,690 --> 00:17:21,390
- My wife had been researching RSO oil.

388
00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:23,260
So she says I want you to try this,

389
00:17:23,310 --> 00:17:24,390
and I talked to a couple of friends,

390
00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,780
and they were talking about
gimp oil, cannabis oil.

391
00:17:27,830 --> 00:17:28,790
We didn't know where to get it,

392
00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,983
so I just happened to have
a nephew that knew Pete.

393
00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:37,120
- I've been giving people my version

394
00:17:37,170 --> 00:17:40,580
of a blend of RSO or FECO is,

395
00:17:40,630 --> 00:17:42,483
it's the holy anointing oil.

396
00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,480
- This is a tough one.

397
00:17:49,530 --> 00:17:51,643
There are huge believers and advocates,

398
00:17:52,700 --> 00:17:54,260
and the problem becomes,

399
00:17:54,310 --> 00:17:57,690
at what point is any medication toxic?

400
00:17:57,740 --> 00:18:00,780
We don't have a toxic, or
a lethal dose right now,

401
00:18:00,830 --> 00:18:03,073
in terms of THC or CBD,

402
00:18:04,140 --> 00:18:06,540
but at some point we have to stop and say,

403
00:18:06,590 --> 00:18:09,110
if a chemo treatment
was making you nauseous

404
00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:10,670
and vomiting and sleeping all day,

405
00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:12,750
and giving you poor quality of life,

406
00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,590
you would call that
chemo treatment terrible.

407
00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:17,410
Why is it that we don't
have the same feeling

408
00:18:17,460 --> 00:18:19,070
about Rick Simpson Oil?

409
00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:23,490
It is a hugely concentrated,
very expensive medication,

410
00:18:23,540 --> 00:18:26,150
that may be helpful for some.

411
00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:27,470
I can't tell you.

412
00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:30,460
I can't stand behind something

413
00:18:30,510 --> 00:18:33,070
that makes my patients feel so unwell,

414
00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:34,640
when the whole goal of treatment

415
00:18:34,690 --> 00:18:38,140
is to give them less
nausea, less vomiting,

416
00:18:38,190 --> 00:18:40,760
better interactions with
their family and friends,

417
00:18:40,810 --> 00:18:44,360
more time being awake,
and less time sleeping.

418
00:18:44,410 --> 00:18:46,690
If we can give them that without having

419
00:18:46,740 --> 00:18:48,720
the negative side effects, by all means,

420
00:18:48,770 --> 00:18:50,640
I'm looking forward to finding the

421
00:18:52,130 --> 00:18:54,240
quote-unquote curative
treatment for cancer,

422
00:18:54,290 --> 00:18:55,997
but until we get there,

423
00:18:56,047 --> 00:18:57,970
and until we do this matching up

424
00:18:58,020 --> 00:19:00,520
with cancer and cannabis treatment,

425
00:19:00,570 --> 00:19:03,280
then I have a really hard
time getting behind it.

426
00:19:03,330 --> 00:19:06,050
- A gram of cannabis a day,

427
00:19:06,100 --> 00:19:07,790
a gram of cannabis oil

428
00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:12,490
that all the fats and
stuff's been removed,

429
00:19:12,540 --> 00:19:14,783
so it's like pretty pure oil.

430
00:19:15,730 --> 00:19:17,880
It's really strong.

431
00:19:17,930 --> 00:19:20,603
Especially some people
are really sensitive.

432
00:19:21,890 --> 00:19:25,470
If you didn't use cannabis for years,

433
00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:28,960
most likely what happened is
when you were in high school,

434
00:19:29,010 --> 00:19:31,110
you smoked weed and had a bad reaction,

435
00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,530
and said oh I don't like that stuff.

436
00:19:33,580 --> 00:19:34,980
It's not for me.

437
00:19:35,030 --> 00:19:38,030
And then later, when I tell you

438
00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:39,913
you have to get over this hump,

439
00:19:41,130 --> 00:19:44,530
man sometimes it's hard for
people to get over that hump.

440
00:19:44,580 --> 00:19:46,523
It's not the easiest thing because,

441
00:19:47,590 --> 00:19:49,853
like I say it makes you hallucinate.

442
00:19:50,810 --> 00:19:52,360
It's really, really strong,

443
00:19:52,410 --> 00:19:55,770
it's not an easy task but

444
00:19:55,820 --> 00:19:57,160
once you get past it,

445
00:19:57,210 --> 00:20:01,357
there's this hump you
get past, then it's okay,

446
00:20:01,407 --> 00:20:04,090
but you gotta get over
the hump, man, it's hard.

447
00:20:04,140 --> 00:20:05,590
When I first started taking

448
00:20:06,530 --> 00:20:08,740
the oil it was for my blood pressure,

449
00:20:08,790 --> 00:20:10,210
and my blood sugar.

450
00:20:10,260 --> 00:20:13,960
I was trying to get off of the 15 pills

451
00:20:14,010 --> 00:20:16,960
from big pharma I was taking a day.

452
00:20:17,010 --> 00:20:19,108
And so I worked with my doctor

453
00:20:19,158 --> 00:20:23,010
to slowly take away those medicines,

454
00:20:23,060 --> 00:20:26,080
while I upped the does of cannabis,

455
00:20:26,130 --> 00:20:30,028
and that doctor's now retired but,

456
00:20:30,078 --> 00:20:32,370
I'm eternally grateful
for him working with me,

457
00:20:32,420 --> 00:20:35,380
because doctors at that
time weren't doing that.

458
00:20:35,430 --> 00:20:37,680
- So when I talk to my colleagues,

459
00:20:37,730 --> 00:20:40,050
my other fellow
physicians, about cannabis,

460
00:20:40,100 --> 00:20:41,333
I get a lot of this.

461
00:20:43,493 --> 00:20:44,370
I don't know.

462
00:20:44,420 --> 00:20:47,080
I get a lot of, well I
can't talk about that

463
00:20:47,130 --> 00:20:49,040
because it's illegal.

464
00:20:49,090 --> 00:20:50,653
I get a lot of,

465
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,090
I can't attend that conference

466
00:20:54,140 --> 00:20:55,650
because they're talking about cannabis,

467
00:20:55,700 --> 00:21:00,390
and that would create a
problem for my practice.

468
00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,760
All of these fears that
have been instilled in us

469
00:21:04,810 --> 00:21:07,280
as a medical community,

470
00:21:07,330 --> 00:21:10,860
I am working diligently on proving wrong.

471
00:21:10,910 --> 00:21:13,250
Healthcare providers in general right now

472
00:21:13,300 --> 00:21:15,610
are not doing a very good
job of discussing it,

473
00:21:15,660 --> 00:21:17,630
and part of the reason for that

474
00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,340
is that we've been told this myth,

475
00:21:20,390 --> 00:21:22,100
that we're not allowed to.

476
00:21:22,150 --> 00:21:24,470
And the first thing that
comes out of my mouth,

477
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,677
when somebody says, I
can't talk about that is,

478
00:21:27,727 --> 00:21:30,370
"do you talk about heroin
with your patients?"

479
00:21:30,420 --> 00:21:32,220
And guess what, a lot of physicians

480
00:21:32,270 --> 00:21:34,620
talk about heroin with their
patients, you know why?

481
00:21:34,670 --> 00:21:36,210
Because the medical board requires us

482
00:21:36,260 --> 00:21:37,680
to talk about heroin with our patients,

483
00:21:37,730 --> 00:21:40,150
because we're at an
all-time opiate epidemic,

484
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,810
where patients are dying.

485
00:21:41,860 --> 00:21:45,060
So not only can we not
not talk about heroin,

486
00:21:45,110 --> 00:21:47,380
we are mandated to talk about heroin,

487
00:21:47,430 --> 00:21:50,610
and that we're mandated to
prescribe antidotes to heroin,

488
00:21:50,660 --> 00:21:52,810
and regular opiates as well,

489
00:21:52,860 --> 00:21:55,870
depending on how many
pills a patient is taking.

490
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:57,660
But that comes from the top down.

491
00:21:57,710 --> 00:22:00,240
And what happens right
now is that the top down

492
00:22:00,290 --> 00:22:02,180
is still not talking about it,

493
00:22:02,230 --> 00:22:04,800
because it's still federally illegal,

494
00:22:04,850 --> 00:22:08,157
because things are not
changing at the same pace

495
00:22:08,207 --> 00:22:09,760
as the patients are,

496
00:22:09,810 --> 00:22:12,160
so patients are changing rapidly,

497
00:22:12,210 --> 00:22:15,020
and we're seeing rapid
movement in what they're using,

498
00:22:15,070 --> 00:22:18,560
but we're not going through
medical education routes,

499
00:22:18,610 --> 00:22:21,010
because they didn't want
us to talk about this.

500
00:22:21,060 --> 00:22:24,420
So, it becomes a real challenge.

501
00:22:24,470 --> 00:22:26,940
When are we are we going to be encouraged

502
00:22:26,990 --> 00:22:28,860
to talk about this with our patients?

503
00:22:28,910 --> 00:22:30,950
When is this gonna be required?

504
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,060
When is this gonna be
taught in medical school?

505
00:22:33,110 --> 00:22:35,700
In residency, and
internship, and fellowship?

506
00:22:35,750 --> 00:22:38,250
When is it gonna be
part of the discussion?

507
00:22:38,300 --> 00:22:40,020
When is it going to come to the table

508
00:22:40,070 --> 00:22:45,070
besides under the guise or the
fakeness of recreational use?

509
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,180
When will we start talking
about the medical indications?

510
00:22:48,230 --> 00:22:51,550
And that's been on the
shoulders of the patients

511
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,453
for a long time.

512
00:22:55,210 --> 00:22:56,490
- My sister knew Pete,

513
00:22:56,540 --> 00:22:58,847
and she was like, "go see this guy.

514
00:22:58,897 --> 00:23:00,840
"He'll tell you what you need to know."

515
00:23:00,890 --> 00:23:03,830
And I was like, all right I'll go see him.

516
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,510
So I went to San Francisco and met him.

517
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,920
He was like the most warm individual.

518
00:23:09,970 --> 00:23:11,730
When I came through the door,

519
00:23:11,780 --> 00:23:13,370
he's like, I'm a hugger, give me a hug.

520
00:23:13,420 --> 00:23:14,203
I said okay.

521
00:23:14,253 --> 00:23:17,670
And we sat down and he
basically told me what,

522
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,120
I told him my story up until that point,

523
00:23:20,170 --> 00:23:24,350
and he just said, "okay,
this is what we're gonna do."

524
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,350
And he sent me on the way with the oil,

525
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,600
and it was really tough.

526
00:23:30,650 --> 00:23:34,620
I have never done any
kind of drugs in my life,

527
00:23:34,670 --> 00:23:38,900
and I remember, I was living
with my mom at the time,

528
00:23:38,950 --> 00:23:41,780
and I was taking like a drop a day.

529
00:23:41,830 --> 00:23:43,420
And I would call her from my bedroom,

530
00:23:43,470 --> 00:23:44,920
and be like, you have to come check on me,

531
00:23:44,970 --> 00:23:45,753
something's wrong.

532
00:23:45,803 --> 00:23:48,180
And she'd come up, she said,
"no, you're just stoned."

533
00:23:48,230 --> 00:23:51,505
I said, okay, okay, I'm fine.

534
00:23:51,555 --> 00:23:52,490
I'm just stoned.

535
00:23:52,540 --> 00:23:55,960
So eventually I got up
to what he recommended,

536
00:23:56,010 --> 00:23:58,390
and then I was dumb and I thought that

537
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,790
once you got up that amount,

538
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,080
you didn't have to take the CBD anymore.

539
00:24:03,130 --> 00:24:06,390
And it was working, like my
tumors weren't getting bigger,

540
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:07,620
some of them were shrinking.

541
00:24:07,670 --> 00:24:11,550
- With cannabis, I make
the holy anointing oil,

542
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,660
like Skunk Pharm Research does.

543
00:24:13,710 --> 00:24:15,380
It has cinnamon leaf oil,

544
00:24:15,430 --> 00:24:16,810
cinnamon bark oil,

545
00:24:16,860 --> 00:24:19,220
myrrh gum oil, olive oil,

546
00:24:19,270 --> 00:24:20,470
and cannabis oil.

547
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,460
Most people won't
understand what I'm saying,

548
00:24:22,510 --> 00:24:25,500
when I say the holy anointing
oil is from the Bible,

549
00:24:25,550 --> 00:24:27,720
it's from Exodus 30.

550
00:24:27,770 --> 00:24:30,210
In the Bible it talks about how

551
00:24:30,260 --> 00:24:34,348
they had to make with

552
00:24:34,398 --> 00:24:37,390
kaneh-bosem, cinnamon.

553
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,010
Back then the perfumers would
have used the whole tree,

554
00:24:40,060 --> 00:24:43,550
so in our recipe,

555
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,150
we use cinnamon bark
and cinnamon leaf oil,

556
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:47,693
so you get both.

557
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:50,950
The myrrh gum oil,

558
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,853
and the olive oil.

559
00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:56,106
And so they used to
give it to the priests.

560
00:24:56,156 --> 00:24:57,280
They used to give it to the priests

561
00:24:57,330 --> 00:24:58,650
and they would anoint people,

562
00:24:58,700 --> 00:25:01,450
and it would heal them back then.

563
00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:04,300
And so that's where our recipe comes from,

564
00:25:04,350 --> 00:25:07,670
and the craziest thing
is every single person

565
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,970
I've given it to has gotten better.

566
00:25:10,020 --> 00:25:11,380
Every single one gets better,

567
00:25:11,430 --> 00:25:13,060
even if they don't make it,

568
00:25:13,110 --> 00:25:14,980
they're still better
than they were before.

569
00:25:15,030 --> 00:25:18,910
I learned how to do all that
from Skunk Pharm Research.

570
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,250
That recipe that I use, is from them.

571
00:25:22,300 --> 00:25:24,810
They were talking about
how it cured cancer,

572
00:25:24,860 --> 00:25:26,440
and it was on the IC Mag,

573
00:25:26,490 --> 00:25:29,317
it was on a bunch of the
bulletin boards back then.

574
00:25:29,367 --> 00:25:31,540
- One of my favorite topics.

575
00:25:31,590 --> 00:25:33,060
So, cannabis and cancer.

576
00:25:33,110 --> 00:25:38,050
It is crazy how much is on WebMD, Google.

577
00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:40,760
Everybody these days gets
a diagnosis of cancer

578
00:25:40,810 --> 00:25:42,930
and immediately the next
thing that they're gonna do

579
00:25:42,980 --> 00:25:44,910
is go online and Google it,

580
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,567
and try and figure out what is going on

581
00:25:46,617 --> 00:25:49,270
and what they need to do,
and what sorts of treatment.

582
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,280
And there is so much that
is being talked about,

583
00:25:52,330 --> 00:25:55,660
in terms of cannabis
treatment, with cancer.

584
00:25:55,710 --> 00:25:58,090
I like to take a very
different perspective on this.

585
00:25:58,140 --> 00:25:59,370
And one of my perspectives is,

586
00:25:59,420 --> 00:26:01,140
is first of all, we know for a fact

587
00:26:01,190 --> 00:26:04,470
that this is going to be
helpful for nausea and vomiting

588
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,430
associated with chemotherapy.

589
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,600
We know it's gonna be helpful for pain.

590
00:26:08,650 --> 00:26:11,710
We know it's gonna be helpful
for anxiety and depression.

591
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,610
Those are three things that very commonly

592
00:26:14,660 --> 00:26:17,803
affect people with cancer,
as they go through treatment.

593
00:26:18,710 --> 00:26:20,910
Now there was a recent
article by Doctor Abrams

594
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,030
out of UC San Francisco, I believe,

595
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,920
who stated almost exactly the same thing.

596
00:26:25,970 --> 00:26:27,450
Instead of treating patients

597
00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:29,480
with three different types of pills,

598
00:26:29,530 --> 00:26:31,380
to treat each one of those things,

599
00:26:31,430 --> 00:26:33,630
we can treat them with just one thing,

600
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,300
and that's cannabis products.

601
00:26:35,350 --> 00:26:39,260
And wouldn't that be a nice way to just

602
00:26:39,310 --> 00:26:43,050
ease off for patients, instead
of adding to their pill load?

603
00:26:43,100 --> 00:26:44,763
Because there is a pill load.

604
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:46,980
People come in and they say,

605
00:26:47,030 --> 00:26:49,590
well which one of my 50 pills
do you want to know about?

606
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,060
And I want to know about all of them.

607
00:26:51,110 --> 00:26:53,730
But what I want to do is
actually simplify that regimen,

608
00:26:53,780 --> 00:26:55,830
because every time you take a pill,

609
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,980
I promise you, people feel depressed,

610
00:26:58,030 --> 00:27:01,540
and I promise you people
feel like they're broken,

611
00:27:01,590 --> 00:27:03,090
like they're not whole,

612
00:27:03,140 --> 00:27:04,490
like they're going through something,

613
00:27:04,540 --> 00:27:05,323
and they're struggling

614
00:27:05,373 --> 00:27:07,430
with something nobody else understands.

615
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,190
And so if you can help
simplify that regimen,

616
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:14,024
in of itself, you're doing
somebody a great benefit.

617
00:27:14,074 --> 00:27:15,560
- I didn't believe it.

618
00:27:15,610 --> 00:27:16,890
I didn't believe it at first.

619
00:27:16,940 --> 00:27:21,160
I thought the stoners were
just trying to keep their weed,

620
00:27:21,210 --> 00:27:23,280
and then I met my first patient

621
00:27:23,330 --> 00:27:27,450
that cured their cancer with cannabis.

622
00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:30,653
And once I looked someone in
the eye that actually did it,

623
00:27:31,577 --> 00:27:34,460
and they told me their
story, and I believed 'em,

624
00:27:34,510 --> 00:27:36,920
I knew that I was kind
of in a unique position

625
00:27:36,970 --> 00:27:38,790
to help people.

626
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:40,560
I knew that I could get

627
00:27:40,610 --> 00:27:42,360
the things required to make it.

628
00:27:42,410 --> 00:27:45,590
I had family that had grown pot for years,

629
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:50,640
and threw away the part that
we would use to make the oil,

630
00:27:51,850 --> 00:27:53,333
which, we call it trim.

631
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,820
They trim the buds to make the pretty

632
00:27:58,870 --> 00:28:00,510
flowers that they put in the bags

633
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,320
that they sell to the stoners.

634
00:28:03,370 --> 00:28:06,833
Well all the trimmings are
what we use to make the oil.

635
00:28:08,075 --> 00:28:09,510
It's still good, it's still good medicine,

636
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,360
just they trim it off the flowers

637
00:28:11,410 --> 00:28:13,960
so I could get it free at the time.

638
00:28:14,010 --> 00:28:15,300
Once I found out that it worked,

639
00:28:15,350 --> 00:28:17,240
then I wanted to try.

640
00:28:17,290 --> 00:28:18,487
So then I made some,

641
00:28:18,537 --> 00:28:21,070
and started looking around
for a cancer patient.

642
00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:24,800
And the Skunk Farm way was to give

643
00:28:25,690 --> 00:28:26,913
give medicine free.

644
00:28:27,850 --> 00:28:29,690
Medicine shouldn't be charged for.

645
00:28:29,740 --> 00:28:30,990
The first class I went to,

646
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:36,040
there I met my first cancer
patient that had taken the oil,

647
00:28:36,140 --> 00:28:38,320
and gotten all the way to remission,

648
00:28:38,370 --> 00:28:41,890
and she had a horrible story
about how she got there.

649
00:28:41,940 --> 00:28:43,670
I bought a machine that day,

650
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,660
and made the commitment that

651
00:28:45,710 --> 00:28:48,230
half of everything that
would go through my machine,

652
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:49,740
I'd give away free.

653
00:28:49,790 --> 00:28:51,860
I've given away more than half

654
00:28:51,910 --> 00:28:53,830
that's come through that machine,

655
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:55,500
but that was the original intent

656
00:28:55,550 --> 00:28:58,250
was at least half give away free.

657
00:28:58,300 --> 00:28:59,670
The problem is,

658
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,580
most cancer patients don't have money.

659
00:29:02,630 --> 00:29:05,040
Most real patients don't have money.

660
00:29:05,090 --> 00:29:08,090
If I have eight patients
that don't have money,

661
00:29:08,140 --> 00:29:09,573
and two that do,

662
00:29:11,260 --> 00:29:12,363
that's enough.

663
00:29:14,170 --> 00:29:15,462
I'm not worried about the money.

664
00:29:15,512 --> 00:29:17,780
When I first started I had family

665
00:29:17,830 --> 00:29:20,740
that had grown for years,

666
00:29:20,790 --> 00:29:23,143
and they threw away their trim.

667
00:29:23,988 --> 00:29:25,190
They didn't use it.

668
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:26,810
No one was really using it then.

669
00:29:26,860 --> 00:29:28,870
No one cared about trim.

670
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,987
So when I first started I went,

671
00:29:31,037 --> 00:29:34,230
and I got like 50, a hundred pounds free,

672
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,720
and I would just turn it into oil,

673
00:29:36,770 --> 00:29:38,010
and I'd have all the oil,

674
00:29:38,060 --> 00:29:40,688
any time anyone needed
it, I'd just give it away,

675
00:29:40,738 --> 00:29:42,560
whether they had money or not.

676
00:29:42,610 --> 00:29:43,773
And it just worked out,

677
00:29:43,823 --> 00:29:45,433
I never had to tell anyone no.

678
00:29:46,935 --> 00:29:49,440
(soft jazz music)

679
00:29:49,490 --> 00:29:52,240
- He gave me this oil,

680
00:29:52,290 --> 00:29:56,410
and he wanted me to get
down to 12 drops a day.

681
00:29:56,460 --> 00:29:59,830
At first, I took one,
there was no big deal.

682
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:02,043
Two, it was okay.

683
00:30:03,567 --> 00:30:05,990
And then when I started taking more,

684
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,400
I started getting super high.

685
00:30:08,450 --> 00:30:10,750
Like he said, I called
him up, and I was like,

686
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,280
I was only taking like two drops,

687
00:30:14,330 --> 00:30:16,570
and I was supposed to take two more.

688
00:30:16,620 --> 00:30:19,653
Wow, I can't get any higher
than what I'm getting.

689
00:30:20,938 --> 00:30:21,730
It got to the point,

690
00:30:21,780 --> 00:30:23,840
my wife couldn't even go to the bathroom,

691
00:30:23,890 --> 00:30:25,840
because I didn't want to be left alone.

692
00:30:27,530 --> 00:30:29,053
You know, just so paranoid.

693
00:30:29,910 --> 00:30:32,080
It depends on your
personality, how it reacts.

694
00:30:32,130 --> 00:30:34,840
Some people relax, some
people get nervous.

695
00:30:34,890 --> 00:30:36,800
I get nervous.

696
00:30:36,850 --> 00:30:39,160
- Pete saved my life,
because, like I said,

697
00:30:39,210 --> 00:30:41,580
I thought I had access
to really great medicine,

698
00:30:41,630 --> 00:30:43,440
and a good consistent supply of it,

699
00:30:43,490 --> 00:30:45,063
and I didn't.

700
00:30:48,154 --> 00:30:49,910
- Give me a little bit of the same leeway,

701
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,280
as we give to physicians
prescribing narcotics.

702
00:30:53,330 --> 00:30:56,297
We don't have the same leeway right now.

703
00:30:56,347 --> 00:30:58,360
If I write this recommendation,

704
00:30:58,410 --> 00:31:02,060
I'm coming under strict, super-strict,

705
00:31:02,110 --> 00:31:03,300
rules and regulations,

706
00:31:03,350 --> 00:31:06,150
even more strict than my colleagues,

707
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,350
and even myself when I was only
in the emergency department.

708
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,000
- I had gone to the doctor,

709
00:31:11,857 --> 00:31:14,613
and at first this Votrient
that I was taking,

710
00:31:16,350 --> 00:31:19,033
kind of worked a little
bit, and then it quit.

711
00:31:20,380 --> 00:31:21,627
And it was kind of useless,

712
00:31:21,677 --> 00:31:24,573
I couldn't keep nothing
down, nothing tasted good.

713
00:31:25,769 --> 00:31:26,602
It was terrible.

714
00:31:27,550 --> 00:31:28,990
I quit taking it.

715
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,820
And I told him, I'm not
gonna take it any more.

716
00:31:31,870 --> 00:31:34,257
And he says, "well what
do you need me for?"

717
00:31:35,630 --> 00:31:37,990
And I said, well just to
monitor to see where I'm at.

718
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:39,570
But I didn't tell him that I was starting

719
00:31:39,620 --> 00:31:41,223
to take the CBD oil.

720
00:31:42,870 --> 00:31:44,680
And then so after a couple of CT scans,

721
00:31:44,730 --> 00:31:45,980
I started getting better.

722
00:31:47,060 --> 00:31:48,073
And he finally says,

723
00:31:50,217 --> 00:31:51,907
"are you self-medicating?"

724
00:31:53,530 --> 00:31:55,730
And we started laughing, I said, yeah.

725
00:31:55,780 --> 00:31:57,270
And we told him what we were doing,

726
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,937
he goes, "oh sometimes it
just, people just reverse."

727
00:32:03,580 --> 00:32:05,190
But that wasn't the case.

728
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,290
- I see so much going on in
the hemp/CBD world right now,

729
00:32:09,340 --> 00:32:13,350
in the US, because of
the recent Farm Bill Act,

730
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,500
and now it's kind of
been this huge upsurge

731
00:32:15,550 --> 00:32:17,290
with CBD and cancer.

732
00:32:17,340 --> 00:32:18,560
And what I like to remind people,

733
00:32:18,610 --> 00:32:22,660
it's one part, or one chemical
part of the whole plant,

734
00:32:22,710 --> 00:32:24,970
and up until very recently,

735
00:32:25,020 --> 00:32:27,410
we weren't even paying
any attention to it.

736
00:32:27,460 --> 00:32:31,570
Because most of anything
you thought of as cannabis,

737
00:32:31,620 --> 00:32:34,910
prior to 2010 really, was THC.

738
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,020
It was just a matter of
how much THC we're getting.

739
00:32:38,070 --> 00:32:40,580
And it's really been in the last decade

740
00:32:40,630 --> 00:32:42,350
that we're now starting to see this

741
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,080
new surge in data, this
new surge in interest,

742
00:32:45,130 --> 00:32:46,580
in something different,

743
00:32:46,630 --> 00:32:49,750
and mostly because it's not intoxicating.

744
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,010
The problem becomes that just
because it's not intoxicating,

745
00:32:53,060 --> 00:32:55,340
doesn't mean it's the
right fit for everyone.

746
00:32:55,390 --> 00:32:58,120
So I do gently remind everybody

747
00:32:58,170 --> 00:33:00,510
that CBD is a great medication,

748
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,870
in and of itself for the right purpose.

749
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,320
But it is not a one-size-fits-all answer.

750
00:33:06,370 --> 00:33:08,630
CBD and cancer can be very helpful

751
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,600
in terms of pain management,

752
00:33:10,650 --> 00:33:12,810
in terms of anxiety management,

753
00:33:12,860 --> 00:33:16,220
and we try to basically maximize

754
00:33:16,270 --> 00:33:18,190
where we can get benefit from this.

755
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,000
So depending on what somebody's
going through with cancer,

756
00:33:22,050 --> 00:33:25,680
the problem becomes
when we stigmatize THC,

757
00:33:25,730 --> 00:33:27,920
because we think CBD is the answer.

758
00:33:27,970 --> 00:33:31,890
And that's something really
important to avoid doing.

759
00:33:31,940 --> 00:33:35,590
THC is not evil, it shouldn't
be stigmatized against.

760
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:36,970
When used appropriately

761
00:33:37,020 --> 00:33:39,830
it has profound results
and profound usages.

762
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,350
And again, as we delve deeper into this,

763
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,210
into this book of cannabis,

764
00:33:45,260 --> 00:33:48,100
we start seeing THC-A, and CBD-A,

765
00:33:48,150 --> 00:33:49,940
as being other potentials,

766
00:33:49,990 --> 00:33:53,020
as well as things like CBG, and CBN,

767
00:33:53,070 --> 00:33:55,453
and hopefully soon one day, CBDV.

768
00:33:56,730 --> 00:33:59,680
As we continue to grow
and expand this field,

769
00:33:59,730 --> 00:34:01,290
I think we're gonna see a lot of benefits

770
00:34:01,340 --> 00:34:03,590
from things that we
didn't know even existed,

771
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:04,633
until recently.

772
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:09,740
- The lung tumors were growing,

773
00:34:09,790 --> 00:34:12,657
so the doctor said, "we
need to take this one,

774
00:34:12,707 --> 00:34:14,617
"a specific tumor, out,

775
00:34:14,667 --> 00:34:17,330
"because it's causing a lot of trouble."

776
00:34:17,380 --> 00:34:20,280
So it was a really large
tumor in my left lung,

777
00:34:20,330 --> 00:34:23,500
so they took out the left lower lobe,

778
00:34:23,550 --> 00:34:24,970
but I still had tumors,

779
00:34:25,020 --> 00:34:28,930
in the left and in the
right, and in my neck.

780
00:34:28,980 --> 00:34:31,070
But at that time they said,

781
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,600
we don't have any other options for you.

782
00:34:34,650 --> 00:34:38,480
I figured with Pete, I
didn't have anything to lose.

783
00:34:38,530 --> 00:34:39,540
I was either gonna die,

784
00:34:39,590 --> 00:34:42,620
or I was gonna do
everything Pete said to do.

785
00:34:42,670 --> 00:34:44,370
- I would say this.

786
00:34:44,420 --> 00:34:47,910
If you have cancer, and
it's not brain cancer,

787
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,860
or estrogen-positive breast cancer,

788
00:34:51,910 --> 00:34:54,970
get a thousand milligrams
of THC in your body a day,

789
00:34:55,020 --> 00:34:56,793
for at least 90 days straight.

790
00:34:57,740 --> 00:35:00,340
I would say if you have
estrogen-based cancer,

791
00:35:00,390 --> 00:35:03,000
or breast cancer, or brain cancer,

792
00:35:03,050 --> 00:35:06,347
get a two to one ratio CBD to THC,

793
00:35:06,397 --> 00:35:08,640
and take a thousand milligrams a day

794
00:35:08,690 --> 00:35:10,360
for at least 90 days.

795
00:35:10,410 --> 00:35:14,693
In both cases, remove
all sugar from your diet.

796
00:35:17,740 --> 00:35:20,183
Eat food with nutritional value.

797
00:35:21,100 --> 00:35:23,960
If it's not working get rid of the meat,

798
00:35:24,010 --> 00:35:26,090
and just eat veggies.

799
00:35:26,140 --> 00:35:29,640
And try to think positively too.

800
00:35:29,690 --> 00:35:30,720
I believe that helps.

801
00:35:30,770 --> 00:35:33,510
- And then that's when I
kind of got really serious

802
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,560
with the diet and everything.

803
00:35:35,610 --> 00:35:37,770
I cut out like all sugar,

804
00:35:37,820 --> 00:35:41,020
I had a list of like every food,

805
00:35:41,070 --> 00:35:42,780
and like every gram of sugar

806
00:35:42,830 --> 00:35:44,660
that would be in that food.

807
00:35:44,710 --> 00:35:48,780
I wouldn't eat fruit, I
cut out bread, pasta, soda,

808
00:35:48,830 --> 00:35:50,763
I only would drink water.

809
00:35:51,740 --> 00:35:53,310
So I had the lung surgery,

810
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:54,500
and then three months later,

811
00:35:54,550 --> 00:35:57,170
with just doing what Pete told me to do,

812
00:35:57,220 --> 00:35:58,470
all the tumors were gone.

813
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,920
There wasn't any evidence of tumors left.

814
00:36:02,970 --> 00:36:04,650
- I started putting on weight,

815
00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:06,653
and I gained 25 pounds in two weeks.

816
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,540
And the doctor went crazy.

817
00:36:09,590 --> 00:36:10,663
My regular doctor.

818
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,750
So anyway, in a matter of about

819
00:36:16,980 --> 00:36:19,610
I don't know, six months,
I was back to my weight,

820
00:36:19,660 --> 00:36:21,500
or 160-170 pounds,

821
00:36:21,550 --> 00:36:24,770
then just recently at like 205,

822
00:36:24,820 --> 00:36:27,610
so I kind of cooled it.

823
00:36:27,660 --> 00:36:30,110
But instead of going to
the doctor every month,

824
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,850
or every week,

825
00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:34,343
I go every six months now.

826
00:36:35,750 --> 00:36:36,680
He just says,

827
00:36:37,784 --> 00:36:39,700
that I was a walking miracle.

828
00:36:39,750 --> 00:36:42,650
- For some reason, when
I used their recipe

829
00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:44,510
of holy anointing oil,

830
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,370
magic happens faster
than with regular FECO.

831
00:36:48,420 --> 00:36:52,460
Since it's proved itself,
I stick with what works.

832
00:36:52,510 --> 00:36:53,640
- I asked the doctor, I'm like,

833
00:36:53,690 --> 00:36:55,000
well what do you think about this?

834
00:36:55,050 --> 00:36:56,990
He said, oh it's probably the treatment

835
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,690
coming back around and working.

836
00:36:58,740 --> 00:37:00,760
I'm like, no it's really not,

837
00:37:00,810 --> 00:37:02,343
'cause I failed the treatment,

838
00:37:03,210 --> 00:37:04,990
tumors were growing on the treatment.

839
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,243
It doesn't just flip a switch.

840
00:37:11,472 --> 00:37:14,472
(upbeat jazz music)

841
00:37:16,567 --> 00:37:17,734
- I was eight.

842
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,290
I was with a friend,

843
00:37:21,340 --> 00:37:24,070
and we were in a tree
house down the street,

844
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,250
Tony Garish had some weed.

845
00:37:27,220 --> 00:37:28,780
I didn't know what it was.

846
00:37:28,830 --> 00:37:30,020
I was eight.

847
00:37:30,070 --> 00:37:32,740
I just took a couple of puffs,

848
00:37:32,790 --> 00:37:35,090
and then I don't even
remember what happened,

849
00:37:35,140 --> 00:37:36,320
but I liked it.

850
00:37:36,370 --> 00:37:38,550
I smoked weed ever since then,

851
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:39,750
until I stopped,

852
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:44,640
like I never imagined there
would be a time in my life

853
00:37:44,690 --> 00:37:45,990
where I didn't smoke weed.

854
00:37:46,970 --> 00:37:48,790
When I got clean,

855
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:53,150
I still didn't have anything against weed,

856
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:57,300
I just, when I'm staying
clean I didn't want anything.

857
00:37:57,350 --> 00:37:59,650
I wanted to just try nothing.

858
00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:02,850
I was really scared to try cannabis again

859
00:38:02,900 --> 00:38:03,710
when I tried it,

860
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,850
because I was scared
I'd wake up the monster.

861
00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:10,570
Fortunately, I did but
it went the positive way.

862
00:38:10,620 --> 00:38:11,700
I woke up the monster

863
00:38:11,750 --> 00:38:15,300
and became obsessed on
helping people with it,

864
00:38:15,350 --> 00:38:16,840
rather than waking up the monster

865
00:38:16,890 --> 00:38:19,830
and becoming a crack head with it, right?

866
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,760
- Pretty sure I was smoking
weed in a schoolyard,

867
00:38:22,810 --> 00:38:23,693
out of an apple.

868
00:38:25,220 --> 00:38:27,850
The old apple pipe with
a couple of friends.

869
00:38:27,900 --> 00:38:31,030
And I remember feeling like oh shit,

870
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,180
my grandma's totally gonna know I'm high.

871
00:38:34,230 --> 00:38:37,043
And I was about 13.

872
00:38:37,093 --> 00:38:38,381
- You know,

873
00:38:38,431 --> 00:38:40,280
you know what, I remember
smoking weed when I was a kid.

874
00:38:40,330 --> 00:38:43,470
I said, you know what,
this might not be so bad.

875
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,840
But then the dosage you had to take.

876
00:38:45,890 --> 00:38:47,163
Then it got bad.

877
00:38:48,429 --> 00:38:51,490
Like I never hallucinated
or anything like that,

878
00:38:51,540 --> 00:38:52,640
but boy I'll tell you.

879
00:38:54,070 --> 00:38:55,920
I would take it before I went to bed,

880
00:38:57,100 --> 00:38:57,933
and then,

881
00:38:59,620 --> 00:39:00,593
I'd fall asleep.

882
00:39:01,730 --> 00:39:05,503
But I would got so high,
that it would wake me up.

883
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,110
And I worried about things
I did in the third grade.

884
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,850
- When I used cannabis the
first time in 15 years,

885
00:39:12,900 --> 00:39:14,960
it was 100% medical.

886
00:39:15,010 --> 00:39:17,300
It was not recreational at all.

887
00:39:17,350 --> 00:39:20,290
It was only after about nine months

888
00:39:20,340 --> 00:39:25,340
of using cannabis that I started

889
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,390
enjoying it like that.

890
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:29,650
I don't want to say 'non-medical',

891
00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:33,010
I believe that all
cannabis use is medical.

892
00:39:33,060 --> 00:39:38,060
But sometimes that medical
benefit is just relaxing me.

893
00:39:38,457 --> 00:39:41,374
(soft piano music)

894
00:39:47,207 --> 00:39:49,680
I lot of the people I helped,

895
00:39:49,730 --> 00:39:52,950
they're not cannabis people at all.

896
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,220
A lot of the people I help

897
00:39:55,270 --> 00:39:57,900
are either people in recovery,

898
00:39:57,950 --> 00:40:00,480
people in recovery's parents,

899
00:40:00,530 --> 00:40:03,220
people in recovery's family members,

900
00:40:03,270 --> 00:40:07,654
and people come to me because they know

901
00:40:07,704 --> 00:40:12,704
that I can address their
concerns with using cannabis.

902
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:17,280
They know that they can
trust me to tell the truth,

903
00:40:17,330 --> 00:40:19,720
even if it's not what they want to here.

904
00:40:19,770 --> 00:40:24,420
I'm blessed with the ability
to connect with people.

905
00:40:24,470 --> 00:40:27,260
Like I don't know how, but like I'm lucky.

906
00:40:27,310 --> 00:40:29,570
When I meet someone and they're sick,

907
00:40:29,620 --> 00:40:33,140
and I talk to 'em, nine out of 10 times

908
00:40:33,190 --> 00:40:34,610
I feel like they hear me.

909
00:40:34,660 --> 00:40:38,093
And if they hear me, then we got a chance.

910
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,190
I have a four-part plan really,

911
00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:50,550
and it's not that hard.

912
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:51,970
It's only one part cannabis.

913
00:40:52,020 --> 00:40:56,180
And if you change a few
things in your life,

914
00:40:56,230 --> 00:40:57,320
you got a chance.

915
00:40:57,370 --> 00:40:59,510
- The plan Pete had for me was,

916
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,120
like he said, the four-part plan.

917
00:41:01,170 --> 00:41:04,770
I cut out the sugar, soda,
I was an avid soda drinker,

918
00:41:04,820 --> 00:41:07,080
so that was really rough giving soda up,

919
00:41:07,130 --> 00:41:10,590
but I followed the diet to a T.

920
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:11,613
I did,

921
00:41:13,210 --> 00:41:14,970
the first part of it,

922
00:41:15,020 --> 00:41:18,530
I did 12 drops of the oil a day,

923
00:41:18,580 --> 00:41:21,100
and then when the tumors
came back, I called him,

924
00:41:21,150 --> 00:41:22,200
I said, what'll I do?

925
00:41:23,070 --> 00:41:24,377
I need something, and he's like okay,

926
00:41:24,427 --> 00:41:26,350
"we're gonna increase you to 18."

927
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,850
So I was doing 18 drops a day.

928
00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:30,490
After a while you get used to it,

929
00:41:30,540 --> 00:41:31,520
but it takes,

930
00:41:31,570 --> 00:41:33,610
especially for someone
who's never done it before,

931
00:41:33,660 --> 00:41:35,080
it takes a long time.

932
00:41:35,130 --> 00:41:38,660
And the diet, did like vegan,

933
00:41:38,710 --> 00:41:41,320
for the first four months I was vegan,

934
00:41:41,370 --> 00:41:43,313
and then I did vegetarian
for probably about a year,

935
00:41:43,363 --> 00:41:45,406
and then I slowly started adding

936
00:41:45,456 --> 00:41:49,070
like organic meats,
and organic vegetables,

937
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,500
and all that back in.

938
00:41:51,550 --> 00:41:55,593
- Some people can't take the oil,

939
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:58,510
it's just too much, right?

940
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,550
They get too anxious,
they do all these things,

941
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,110
and sometimes in order for me,

942
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,083
if I have a patient like
that, and they're open to it,

943
00:42:07,270 --> 00:42:10,530
sometimes I suggest suppositories,

944
00:42:10,580 --> 00:42:12,540
because with the suppository,

945
00:42:12,590 --> 00:42:15,230
you could do twice a day,

946
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,100
do a half a gram in a suppository.

947
00:42:18,150 --> 00:42:22,290
Other than that, I don't think
dabbing is gonna cure cancer.

948
00:42:22,340 --> 00:42:25,470
I don't think smoking
flower is gonna cure cancer.

949
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,950
I think ingesting oil is probably

950
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:33,490
one of two ways to cure
cancer with cannabis.

951
00:42:33,540 --> 00:42:38,470
I want someone to take at least
a thousand milligrams a day,

952
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:40,823
for 90 days, at least.

953
00:42:42,154 --> 00:42:46,840
Now, I have some patients that have used

954
00:42:46,890 --> 00:42:49,080
higher doses of

955
00:42:51,164 --> 00:42:54,043
a tincture that I've
made with CBD, and THC-A,

956
00:42:55,830 --> 00:42:59,090
which will get them to where they don't

957
00:42:59,930 --> 00:43:00,960
have the anxiousness.

958
00:43:01,010 --> 00:43:03,800
It's a little lighter load.

959
00:43:03,850 --> 00:43:08,410
But I'm a proponent of the high dose,

960
00:43:08,460 --> 00:43:11,680
I definitely believe in the high dose.

961
00:43:11,730 --> 00:43:14,213
At least a thousand
milligrams a day for cancer.

962
00:43:15,821 --> 00:43:18,904
(somber piano music)

963
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,690
If it's brain cancer,

964
00:43:23,740 --> 00:43:28,520
or certain types of
estrogen-based breast cancer,

965
00:43:28,570 --> 00:43:33,570
it's been shown that a
two-to-one ratio, higher CBD,

966
00:43:33,780 --> 00:43:36,743
to THC, is the answer.

967
00:43:37,730 --> 00:43:41,840
But in my experience, every other cancer,

968
00:43:41,890 --> 00:43:43,800
is better the exact opposite of that.

969
00:43:43,850 --> 00:43:46,830
Like more THC and some CBD.

970
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,280
I've learned that through
helping people along the way.

971
00:43:50,330 --> 00:43:52,240
Sugar is cancer food.

972
00:43:52,290 --> 00:43:53,900
You gotta get rid of sugar.

973
00:43:53,950 --> 00:43:56,160
Sugar, if you don't get rid of it,

974
00:43:56,210 --> 00:43:58,180
it's gonna feed your cancer.

975
00:43:58,230 --> 00:44:00,520
So that's the first thing
you've gotta get rid of,

976
00:44:00,570 --> 00:44:01,810
is get rid of sugar.

977
00:44:01,860 --> 00:44:03,250
I say carbs.

978
00:44:03,300 --> 00:44:05,080
I say get rid of the carbs,

979
00:44:05,130 --> 00:44:08,000
for at least three to six months.

980
00:44:08,050 --> 00:44:09,450
You can still have a little.

981
00:44:10,290 --> 00:44:12,840
I have patients that'll still cheat,

982
00:44:12,890 --> 00:44:15,200
and still mess around and do a little but,

983
00:44:15,250 --> 00:44:17,380
it's hard to be perfect,

984
00:44:17,430 --> 00:44:20,590
especially if you think you're dying.

985
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:24,180
You're like, why should I
eat like crap like I hate,

986
00:44:24,230 --> 00:44:26,980
if I'm dying anyways, shouldn't
I just eat what I want?

987
00:44:28,110 --> 00:44:31,210
But then, if you eat right,

988
00:44:31,260 --> 00:44:33,200
you've got a better chance.

989
00:44:33,250 --> 00:44:34,910
Alkalinity,

990
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,790
you have to be cognizant
of your alkalinity.

991
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:39,690
I usually tell people

992
00:44:39,740 --> 00:44:43,150
to buy the alkaline diet cookbook,

993
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,630
and read it from front to back,

994
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:48,190
and what that'll do is it'll explain

995
00:44:48,240 --> 00:44:51,120
what foods metabolize more alkaline.

996
00:44:51,170 --> 00:44:55,630
100% of cancer patients,
they're too acidic.

997
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:59,002
So alkalinity will help.

998
00:44:59,052 --> 00:45:03,000
There's some people that
are anti-that, right?

999
00:45:03,050 --> 00:45:05,220
But I still direct people towards it.

1000
00:45:05,270 --> 00:45:07,020
If you eat alkaline,

1001
00:45:07,070 --> 00:45:09,200
you're basically eating veggies anyways,

1002
00:45:09,250 --> 00:45:11,450
so that's what I'd rather them eat.

1003
00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:14,640
The next step is 100% of cancer patients

1004
00:45:14,690 --> 00:45:16,283
are nutrient-deficient.

1005
00:45:17,460 --> 00:45:19,960
So I always tell 'em to get a juicer.

1006
00:45:20,010 --> 00:45:22,570
And if you just juice once a day at least,

1007
00:45:22,620 --> 00:45:24,840
a good healthy green juice,

1008
00:45:24,890 --> 00:45:27,560
you're gonna be better off nutrient wise

1009
00:45:27,610 --> 00:45:29,480
than if you don't.

1010
00:45:29,530 --> 00:45:31,332
So it's only gonna help.

1011
00:45:31,382 --> 00:45:34,480
In some cases, I tell 'em,

1012
00:45:34,530 --> 00:45:36,230
when you can't get anything,

1013
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,070
you should go all the way vegan.

1014
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:42,226
Almost every time, food is the cause

1015
00:45:42,276 --> 00:45:44,840
of most peoples' problems.

1016
00:45:44,890 --> 00:45:48,080
I kind of believe that eating foods

1017
00:45:48,130 --> 00:45:52,160
without nutritional value
for a long period of time,

1018
00:45:52,210 --> 00:45:54,080
cancer will develop in anyone.

1019
00:45:54,130 --> 00:45:55,720
The way to fix that is to eat

1020
00:45:55,770 --> 00:45:57,763
foods with nutritional value,

1021
00:45:57,813 --> 00:45:59,670
and get your system running again.

1022
00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:02,080
- So I was raised by my maternal grandma.

1023
00:46:02,130 --> 00:46:03,980
We call her Grambo Ronnie.

1024
00:46:04,030 --> 00:46:06,280
She was like five foot two,

1025
00:46:06,330 --> 00:46:07,550
real poofy hair.

1026
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,760
Just picture her like
perfectly coordinated,

1027
00:46:09,810 --> 00:46:11,770
like impeccable outfits,

1028
00:46:11,820 --> 00:46:12,810
but like a little old lady

1029
00:46:12,860 --> 00:46:14,820
that could chuck a log across the yard.

1030
00:46:14,870 --> 00:46:16,270
Like that was Grambo.

1031
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,810
Grambo raised a bunch of kids
that turned to hard drugs,

1032
00:46:19,860 --> 00:46:22,940
and Grambo always considered weed

1033
00:46:22,990 --> 00:46:24,850
the gateway that took them down that path,

1034
00:46:24,900 --> 00:46:27,840
so Grambo would find
my weed, find my bong,

1035
00:46:27,890 --> 00:46:29,080
find my pipes,

1036
00:46:29,130 --> 00:46:32,450
dump it in the trash, break the pipes,

1037
00:46:32,500 --> 00:46:35,660
leave it out like on the
table for me so I'd see it,

1038
00:46:35,710 --> 00:46:36,623
break my heart.

1039
00:46:37,470 --> 00:46:40,890
My grandma got diagnosed
with terminal lung cancer.

1040
00:46:40,940 --> 00:46:44,000
As a female non-smoker it was caught late

1041
00:46:44,050 --> 00:46:45,660
and it spread fast.

1042
00:46:45,710 --> 00:46:48,640
They told her that she
had six weeks to live,

1043
00:46:48,690 --> 00:46:53,193
and she managed to last for six months.

1044
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,880
And in that time I became her caretaker.

1045
00:46:58,930 --> 00:47:01,890
I learned how to like apply
for all these programs

1046
00:47:01,940 --> 00:47:05,260
and get her medication,
and she tried Marinol,

1047
00:47:05,310 --> 00:47:09,580
which was the synthetic-THC
only form of medicine

1048
00:47:09,630 --> 00:47:11,770
that was available to cancer patients.

1049
00:47:11,820 --> 00:47:16,720
Back then this was like in 2004?

1050
00:47:16,770 --> 00:47:20,620
And my grandma was a Jehovah's Witness,

1051
00:47:20,670 --> 00:47:23,290
so she was a real religious lady,

1052
00:47:23,340 --> 00:47:26,300
and didn't like people
who liked getting high.

1053
00:47:26,350 --> 00:47:27,750
She thought it was bad.

1054
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:31,370
And she always took my weed
and did bad things with it,

1055
00:47:31,420 --> 00:47:34,310
so when I suggested that
she take the Marinol,

1056
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,550
she was scared, but
because her doctor told her

1057
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,820
that it might help her
with stuff, she did.

1058
00:47:38,870 --> 00:47:40,083
And she didn't like it.

1059
00:47:41,490 --> 00:47:44,240
So I ended up making her some weed butter,

1060
00:47:44,290 --> 00:47:46,020
and I made her some buttery noodles

1061
00:47:46,070 --> 00:47:49,130
and that was the first
meal that I watched her eat

1062
00:47:49,180 --> 00:47:51,640
that was a whole meal, in six months.

1063
00:47:51,690 --> 00:47:56,690
And she was able to sleep
shortly after that, peacefully,

1064
00:47:56,820 --> 00:47:58,300
and the whole bowl of noodles was gone,

1065
00:47:58,350 --> 00:47:59,920
so that was a win in my book.

1066
00:47:59,970 --> 00:48:01,140
I didn't tell my aunt though.

1067
00:48:01,190 --> 00:48:03,520
I was afraid that my Aunt
Lynn was gonna find out,

1068
00:48:03,570 --> 00:48:05,510
because that would have been like

1069
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:07,030
more family drama.

1070
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,797
But the next morning my grandma woke up,

1071
00:48:09,847 --> 00:48:11,050
and she was like crying,

1072
00:48:11,100 --> 00:48:12,710
and I was like, what's going on?

1073
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:13,730
Are you hurt, in pain?

1074
00:48:13,780 --> 00:48:15,040
And she's like, no.

1075
00:48:15,090 --> 00:48:17,340
She's like, I'm sorry
I threw away your weed.

1076
00:48:18,403 --> 00:48:19,920
But she used to call it pot.

1077
00:48:19,970 --> 00:48:23,563
She used to call it all the
old-lady words for weed.

1078
00:48:24,530 --> 00:48:26,440
But in the end, I realized that

1079
00:48:26,490 --> 00:48:30,450
if I could my grandma to
accept cannabis as medicine,

1080
00:48:30,500 --> 00:48:33,170
then there's a way to convert

1081
00:48:33,220 --> 00:48:35,080
even the most staunch prohibitionist.

1082
00:48:35,130 --> 00:48:38,440
Like it's really like,
it's worth it to try.

1083
00:48:38,490 --> 00:48:41,890
Even if you just leave like
little information here,

1084
00:48:41,940 --> 00:48:43,263
a little article there,

1085
00:48:44,117 --> 00:48:45,633
give grandma the green.

1086
00:48:46,550 --> 00:48:47,383
They'll like it.

1087
00:48:54,260 --> 00:48:59,000
- THC is the secret for most cancer,

1088
00:48:59,050 --> 00:49:00,350
it's not CBD.

1089
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,790
My job, when I'm helping someone,

1090
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:07,690
is to get their CB1
and their CB2 receptors

1091
00:49:07,740 --> 00:49:09,950
firing at maximum.

1092
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,640
And if you don't know what that is,

1093
00:49:12,690 --> 00:49:14,570
everything with a spine

1094
00:49:14,620 --> 00:49:17,050
has an endocannabinoid system,

1095
00:49:17,100 --> 00:49:19,360
and it's tied to your nervous system.

1096
00:49:19,410 --> 00:49:22,770
And at the end of this
system is receptors,

1097
00:49:22,820 --> 00:49:25,070
and these CB1 and CB2 receptors

1098
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,230
are perfectly designed for cannabis,

1099
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:28,600
like they're made for it.

1100
00:49:28,650 --> 00:49:31,410
- The endocannabinoid system
is our body's response

1101
00:49:31,460 --> 00:49:33,920
to both cannabis, the plant,

1102
00:49:33,970 --> 00:49:35,450
as well as our endogenous,

1103
00:49:35,500 --> 00:49:37,990
or the parts or the
chemicals in our bodies

1104
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,550
that actually respond to and react to

1105
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:44,240
all the different things that
are going on in our bodies.

1106
00:49:44,290 --> 00:49:46,090
So, let me simplify.

1107
00:49:46,140 --> 00:49:49,940
The endocannabinoid system works to accept

1108
00:49:49,990 --> 00:49:51,970
outside plant material,

1109
00:49:52,020 --> 00:49:54,630
as well as to react to our
inside body's chemicals

1110
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,200
called the endocannabinoids,

1111
00:49:56,250 --> 00:49:57,840
as opposed to the outside chemicals,

1112
00:49:57,890 --> 00:50:00,010
which are the phytocannabinoids.

1113
00:50:00,060 --> 00:50:02,220
What we think of with the
endocannabinoid system,

1114
00:50:02,270 --> 00:50:04,210
is more of a return back to normal,

1115
00:50:04,260 --> 00:50:05,890
or a return back to baseline.

1116
00:50:05,940 --> 00:50:07,800
And that's why we're
seeing a lot of people

1117
00:50:07,850 --> 00:50:10,990
not understanding all things
cannabis because they say,

1118
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:12,440
well how does this energize me,

1119
00:50:12,490 --> 00:50:14,240
but also make me more calm?

1120
00:50:14,290 --> 00:50:16,820
How does this give me less anxiety,

1121
00:50:16,870 --> 00:50:18,040
but also make me feel like

1122
00:50:18,090 --> 00:50:19,780
I want to get up and move in the day.

1123
00:50:19,830 --> 00:50:20,860
Because a lot of those things

1124
00:50:20,910 --> 00:50:22,820
are very conflicting for patients.

1125
00:50:22,870 --> 00:50:25,130
And what we find is the
endocannabinoid system

1126
00:50:25,180 --> 00:50:28,150
tends to re-regulate our
brain back to the middle,

1127
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,030
so for patients who have anxiety,

1128
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:33,200
or they feel like their
system is stressed out and up,

1129
00:50:33,250 --> 00:50:36,350
I find that endocannabinoids,
as well as phytocannabinoids,

1130
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:40,290
the part of the plant, bring
patients back to the middle,

1131
00:50:40,340 --> 00:50:41,850
or bring them back to a calm.

1132
00:50:41,900 --> 00:50:43,970
For patients who are
already naturally calm,

1133
00:50:44,020 --> 00:50:45,560
and don't have anxiety,

1134
00:50:45,610 --> 00:50:47,190
it can help with things like pain,

1135
00:50:47,240 --> 00:50:50,050
where we don't again, make people sleepy,

1136
00:50:50,100 --> 00:50:51,660
or make people tired,

1137
00:50:51,710 --> 00:50:53,190
which is a very common side effect

1138
00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:55,830
of other types of
pharmaceutical medications.

1139
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:57,340
There was a really interesting article

1140
00:50:57,390 --> 00:50:59,520
that came out in the past year.

1141
00:50:59,570 --> 00:51:01,560
This woman went to the hospital,

1142
00:51:01,610 --> 00:51:03,550
and had a surgery on her wrist,

1143
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,700
and the wrist surgery she had
done is notoriously painful,

1144
00:51:06,750 --> 00:51:08,320
it really, really hurts,

1145
00:51:08,370 --> 00:51:09,750
especially the day after surgery,

1146
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:11,800
once the anesthesia wears off.

1147
00:51:11,850 --> 00:51:14,860
She ended up leaving the
hospital with zero narcotics,

1148
00:51:14,910 --> 00:51:18,300
and this is unheard of in this
particular type of surgery.

1149
00:51:18,350 --> 00:51:21,070
So the doctors all scratched
their heads, and said,

1150
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,290
there's something different,
let's figure this out.

1151
00:51:23,340 --> 00:51:25,480
They went through a
battery of genetic testing,

1152
00:51:25,530 --> 00:51:27,130
and what they found was, this woman

1153
00:51:27,180 --> 00:51:28,960
was naturally missing the enzyme

1154
00:51:29,010 --> 00:51:32,200
that breaks down her endocannabinoids.

1155
00:51:32,250 --> 00:51:34,440
And this specific gene,

1156
00:51:34,490 --> 00:51:36,590
that naturally breaks
down her endocannabinoids,

1157
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,710
caused her to have a huge surge

1158
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:40,660
of endocannabinoids in her system.

1159
00:51:40,710 --> 00:51:41,880
And what did that do?

1160
00:51:41,930 --> 00:51:43,830
So what do these endocannabinoids

1161
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:45,770
do naturally in your system?

1162
00:51:45,820 --> 00:51:46,990
One of those things was she had

1163
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,000
very little history of anxiety,

1164
00:51:49,050 --> 00:51:51,250
just overall across her,

1165
00:51:51,300 --> 00:51:53,050
I think she was 60 or 70 years old,

1166
00:51:53,100 --> 00:51:55,610
across her lifetime had
very little anxiety.

1167
00:51:55,660 --> 00:51:57,970
She had very little pain overall.

1168
00:51:58,020 --> 00:52:00,070
So she naturally had fallen,

1169
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:04,470
and gotten bruises or cuts
or problems over the years,

1170
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,780
and none of those times did she need

1171
00:52:06,830 --> 00:52:09,220
extra-strength or strong painkillers.

1172
00:52:09,270 --> 00:52:12,130
She at no point needed narcotics.

1173
00:52:12,180 --> 00:52:13,670
The other thing they did notice as well,

1174
00:52:13,720 --> 00:52:15,960
was that her memory was not so great.

1175
00:52:16,010 --> 00:52:17,710
So one of the things that we talk about

1176
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:21,340
in terms of, specifically
with THC, is memory.

1177
00:52:21,390 --> 00:52:24,230
We do see short-term memory loss

1178
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:26,750
in patients who use THC chronically,

1179
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:30,000
and sometimes even with
patients who are using

1180
00:52:30,050 --> 00:52:32,130
large amounts, but for short time periods,

1181
00:52:32,180 --> 00:52:34,580
so what we think of as recreational usage.

1182
00:52:34,630 --> 00:52:36,900
You do see memory changes
in those patients.

1183
00:52:36,950 --> 00:52:39,200
And likewise, we saw this in this woman

1184
00:52:39,250 --> 00:52:43,450
who had her natural
endocannabinoids, at a higher level,

1185
00:52:43,500 --> 00:52:45,560
which was pretty remarkable.

1186
00:52:45,610 --> 00:52:48,730
- When you keep those receptors firing,

1187
00:52:48,780 --> 00:52:53,130
the patient has a chance
to get to homeostasis,

1188
00:52:53,180 --> 00:52:58,070
you can get to where your
body operating at an optimum,

1189
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:01,083
given what condition you're in.

1190
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,580
It was probably the internet.

1191
00:53:05,630 --> 00:53:07,520
And being at the time,

1192
00:53:07,570 --> 00:53:11,480
I was like a long-time member of NA.

1193
00:53:11,530 --> 00:53:14,500
I was an active member in recovery,

1194
00:53:14,550 --> 00:53:17,310
that would talk about
recovery on social media,

1195
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,660
and talk about that stuff and then,

1196
00:53:19,710 --> 00:53:22,860
every now and then I'd be
talking about cannabis.

1197
00:53:22,910 --> 00:53:24,123
And then, people would be like,

1198
00:53:24,173 --> 00:53:26,060
what the hell is he talking about?

1199
00:53:26,110 --> 00:53:29,430
Like he's not a weed
guy, he's a total NA guy.

1200
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:34,480
And then a couple of
people would engage me,

1201
00:53:35,149 --> 00:53:36,199
and then I found one.

1202
00:53:37,150 --> 00:53:40,150
And I found one and I just
came down and gave him oil.

1203
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,680
I gave him oil, nine months later he's

1204
00:53:44,820 --> 00:53:45,653
remission.

1205
00:53:46,850 --> 00:53:51,790
My first remission phone
call changed my life.

1206
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:52,970
I'll never turn back.

1207
00:53:53,020 --> 00:53:56,860
The feeling you get when you get a call,

1208
00:53:56,910 --> 00:54:00,150
and someone that was dying,

1209
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,423
is like, I'm okay now, thank you.

1210
00:54:03,730 --> 00:54:05,290
That's heavy.

1211
00:54:05,340 --> 00:54:10,340
There's no way to describe it in words.

1212
00:54:10,980 --> 00:54:12,683
Like I can't even tell you.

1213
00:54:13,750 --> 00:54:18,250
And just the day before we
came down here for this,

1214
00:54:18,300 --> 00:54:22,300
I got the call from my 61st remission,

1215
00:54:22,350 --> 00:54:25,750
and it was my first
international remission.

1216
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:27,650
I gave a guy meds for his mom,

1217
00:54:27,700 --> 00:54:31,570
and he got 'em to her out of the country,

1218
00:54:31,620 --> 00:54:33,990
and we discovered that she's in remission.

1219
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:35,240
And it was my first one.

1220
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:37,980
There's a lot of obstacles.

1221
00:54:38,030 --> 00:54:40,860
In 2014 I tried to grow,

1222
00:54:40,910 --> 00:54:42,583
I grew for a year,

1223
00:54:43,485 --> 00:54:45,885
and I found that I'm not
that great of a grower.

1224
00:54:47,140 --> 00:54:51,353
Again, the money guys always
seem to be the problem.

1225
00:54:52,340 --> 00:54:56,090
Everyone always wants to
come in and try to help,

1226
00:54:56,140 --> 00:54:58,993
but then they always just
want to try to profit from it.

1227
00:54:59,960 --> 00:55:01,880
And, you can't.

1228
00:55:01,930 --> 00:55:03,463
There's no way.

1229
00:55:05,140 --> 00:55:09,133
I don't know every many cancer
patients with money, do you?

1230
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:12,960
Most cancer patients already
spent all their money

1231
00:55:13,010 --> 00:55:14,420
trying to get out of their problem,

1232
00:55:14,470 --> 00:55:17,633
and usually get to cannabis
as the last resort.

1233
00:55:18,510 --> 00:55:22,780
I get people that are like
ready to go to hospice.

1234
00:55:22,830 --> 00:55:25,920
They already signed their
house away to their kids

1235
00:55:25,970 --> 00:55:27,253
and stuff sometimes.

1236
00:55:28,380 --> 00:55:30,810
And they don't have money.

1237
00:55:30,860 --> 00:55:35,860
If they do, I'll get like
maybe a $100 donation

1238
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:38,980
for $800 worth of medicine or something.

1239
00:55:39,030 --> 00:55:40,810
I never blink, I never blink,

1240
00:55:40,860 --> 00:55:42,960
because any penny is a blessing

1241
00:55:43,010 --> 00:55:46,270
and it'll all work out, and it always has.

1242
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,713
Like I said, I've never told one no.

1243
00:55:53,100 --> 00:55:54,523
When you say resistant,

1244
00:55:55,650 --> 00:55:57,690
I would say, uninformed.

1245
00:55:57,740 --> 00:56:02,740
And if you lead people to the information,

1246
00:56:02,900 --> 00:56:06,610
for them to absorb it, and figure it out,

1247
00:56:06,660 --> 00:56:09,300
and even if they start slow.

1248
00:56:09,350 --> 00:56:11,333
Sometimes if you start slow,

1249
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,100
then it gets easier anyways.

1250
00:56:14,150 --> 00:56:16,917
Especially if you have regular cancer,

1251
00:56:16,967 --> 00:56:19,870
and you're not used to cannabis at all,

1252
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:21,463
you have to start slow.

1253
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,280
It's too powerful.

1254
00:56:26,330 --> 00:56:27,813
It'll knock you down.

1255
00:56:29,390 --> 00:56:31,250
I've had people hallucinate,

1256
00:56:31,300 --> 00:56:36,300
I've had people tell me
like, I lost 18 hours,

1257
00:56:36,380 --> 00:56:37,483
or different things.

1258
00:56:38,700 --> 00:56:40,450
There's so many things that happen.

1259
00:56:41,809 --> 00:56:44,770
And that's with like half of a drop.

1260
00:56:44,820 --> 00:56:46,130
And I'm telling them,

1261
00:56:46,180 --> 00:56:49,980
we need to get to 12 drops a day, right?

1262
00:56:50,030 --> 00:56:51,870
And it's not easy.

1263
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:55,950
I've had patients that
would set up the alarm

1264
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,660
to get up at four in the
morning to take a couple drops,

1265
00:56:58,710 --> 00:57:00,500
because they need to be
able to get through the day,

1266
00:57:00,550 --> 00:57:02,960
and maybe if I take 'em in
the middle of the night,

1267
00:57:03,010 --> 00:57:05,410
I could get through,
they're spacing it out

1268
00:57:05,460 --> 00:57:07,110
through the day a little better.

1269
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:08,803
This is really hard.

1270
00:57:11,590 --> 00:57:14,650
I have California Botanicals Direct,

1271
00:57:14,700 --> 00:57:19,020
which it was a collective
in California for years,

1272
00:57:19,070 --> 00:57:23,800
and that's where I met the
guy who introduced me to this.

1273
00:57:23,850 --> 00:57:28,110
I took highest CBD at a Secret Cup,

1274
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:31,000
and that opened a lot of doors for me

1275
00:57:31,050 --> 00:57:33,740
within the cannabis community,

1276
00:57:33,790 --> 00:57:36,440
because remember I was not really

1277
00:57:37,300 --> 00:57:40,280
in cannabis before that for a long time.

1278
00:57:40,330 --> 00:57:41,463
I was in NA.

1279
00:57:42,340 --> 00:57:47,210
So winning that cup really
helped open the door

1280
00:57:47,260 --> 00:57:49,450
to the community for me.

1281
00:57:49,500 --> 00:57:52,620
And once that happened,

1282
00:57:52,670 --> 00:57:54,700
it all just kind of took off.

1283
00:57:54,750 --> 00:57:57,680
So now, as of January 9th,

1284
00:57:57,730 --> 00:58:00,290
they took away the collective defense,

1285
00:58:00,340 --> 00:58:04,130
and they outlawed me giving away medicine.

1286
00:58:04,180 --> 00:58:09,180
They made it to where if
I give someone medicine,

1287
00:58:09,260 --> 00:58:12,460
that I owe the retail value of the tax

1288
00:58:12,510 --> 00:58:15,183
for that medicine, for
medicine I give away free.

1289
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:18,600
So what I did is,

1290
00:58:18,650 --> 00:58:19,845
I had a few choices.

1291
00:58:19,895 --> 00:58:22,809
I could either give away all my recipes

1292
00:58:22,859 --> 00:58:25,130
to some profiteer guy,

1293
00:58:25,180 --> 00:58:28,520
to run with it and make millions,

1294
00:58:28,570 --> 00:58:33,070
or walk away, or start something myself.

1295
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:35,300
And what I chose to do is incorporate

1296
00:58:35,350 --> 00:58:39,950
California Botanicals
Direct, as a hemp conduit,

1297
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:41,863
for legal hemp products,

1298
00:58:45,110 --> 00:58:47,880
and try to make that into something

1299
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:53,753
beautiful, that's where I'm at right now.

1300
00:58:54,798 --> 00:58:56,502
That's the stages I'm at.

1301
00:58:56,552 --> 00:58:57,950
And it's going really well,

1302
00:58:58,000 --> 00:58:59,890
I've got me first round of money,

1303
00:58:59,940 --> 00:59:02,960
and the website's about to go active.

1304
00:59:03,010 --> 00:59:05,680
I got the banking, I
got everything I need,

1305
00:59:05,730 --> 00:59:09,010
so it's kind of moving fast right now,

1306
00:59:09,060 --> 00:59:09,940
and it's kind of scary,

1307
00:59:09,990 --> 00:59:13,090
but I'm pretty confident
with where I'm going,

1308
00:59:13,140 --> 00:59:16,654
and I hope everything works out.

1309
00:59:16,704 --> 00:59:19,621
(soft piano music)

1310
00:59:23,850 --> 00:59:25,930
It makes you feel good,

1311
00:59:25,980 --> 00:59:30,980
and what it does is it
relieves your anxiety,

1312
00:59:30,990 --> 00:59:32,503
and it relieves pain.

1313
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:37,020
I've seen it work for so many people

1314
00:59:37,070 --> 00:59:39,910
for so many things, I don't even,

1315
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:41,730
I don't want to put it in a box,

1316
00:59:41,780 --> 00:59:46,763
because it helps everybody, it's crazy.

1317
00:59:51,940 --> 00:59:56,033
Sometimes, like we were
talking about food, right?

1318
00:59:57,250 --> 01:00:00,250
And if sugar is cancer food,

1319
01:00:00,300 --> 01:00:04,030
and I tell you that you
need to stop eating sugar,

1320
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:08,303
and we set it up for you to not eat sugar,

1321
01:00:09,710 --> 01:00:12,973
and you still do, then
sometimes they don't make it.

1322
01:00:14,347 --> 01:00:16,443
I had a patient in Oregon,

1323
01:00:18,637 --> 01:00:20,760
he is in a house with all vegan food.

1324
01:00:20,810 --> 01:00:25,620
He was in there, and he
was in a position to do it.

1325
01:00:25,670 --> 01:00:28,770
I gave the medicine, they had the food,

1326
01:00:28,820 --> 01:00:32,100
they had specific instructions,

1327
01:00:32,150 --> 01:00:34,090
and the guy would get up
in the middle of the night

1328
01:00:34,140 --> 01:00:36,230
and walk two miles to the gas station

1329
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:38,842
and buy chocolate milk and donuts

1330
01:00:38,892 --> 01:00:40,923
and then come back,

1331
01:00:42,597 --> 01:00:45,403
like he couldn't not,

1332
01:00:47,100 --> 01:00:49,350
and he's one of the ones
that didn't make it.

1333
01:00:50,970 --> 01:00:53,550
And then, I have others ones that fought,

1334
01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:54,383
even though,

1335
01:00:54,433 --> 01:00:59,433
I have one that he's lost
over a hundred pounds,

1336
01:00:59,540 --> 01:01:02,303
since the sugar is cancer food.

1337
01:01:04,100 --> 01:01:05,940
And it's like,

1338
01:01:05,990 --> 01:01:07,323
he's another miracle.

1339
01:01:08,844 --> 01:01:10,930
If you take it serious,

1340
01:01:10,980 --> 01:01:14,097
then miracles happen.

1341
01:01:15,010 --> 01:01:17,650
I've seen it over and over, like I say,

1342
01:01:17,700 --> 01:01:20,620
61 as of yesterday.

1343
01:01:20,670 --> 01:01:22,830
- Another big perspective
you're gonna see online,

1344
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:25,000
and you're gonna see around and about,

1345
01:01:25,050 --> 01:01:27,580
and there's some research
coming through about is

1346
01:01:27,630 --> 01:01:30,160
cannabis for the cure, so to speak.

1347
01:01:30,210 --> 01:01:31,630
Can we use this term, first of all?

1348
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:36,340
No, we cannot, it is not
appropriate just yet.

1349
01:01:36,390 --> 01:01:39,670
It's not responsible as
a clinician, as a doctor,

1350
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:42,100
it's not responsible to use those words.

1351
01:01:42,150 --> 01:01:44,550
What I can say is that we're seeing people

1352
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:46,990
get through chemo treatments better.

1353
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:49,110
We're seeing people get
through radiation better.

1354
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:51,490
We're seeing them not struggle as much.

1355
01:01:51,540 --> 01:01:55,220
We're starting to see
on a molecular level,

1356
01:01:55,270 --> 01:01:58,910
and on rat levels, that they're
doing research to evaluate,

1357
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:02,160
how individual parts of cannabis,

1358
01:02:02,210 --> 01:02:06,118
so be it CBD, be it THC, be it THC-A,

1359
01:02:06,168 --> 01:02:08,727
be it CBD-A, be it CBG, CBN,

1360
01:02:08,777 --> 01:02:11,450
and we can do the little dance
of the alphabet soup here,

1361
01:02:11,500 --> 01:02:13,630
but we won't, because
what ends up happening is,

1362
01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:16,420
is there's so much we have to look into,

1363
01:02:16,470 --> 01:02:19,590
and to simplify it, to
just calling it cannabis,

1364
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:22,380
is doing both the plant a disservice,

1365
01:02:22,430 --> 01:02:24,890
as well as our patients
with cancer a disservice.

1366
01:02:24,940 --> 01:02:27,780
So we really need to get
to the bottom of all this,

1367
01:02:27,830 --> 01:02:30,650
and part of this is to
encourage your state,

1368
01:02:30,700 --> 01:02:32,150
encourage the federal government,

1369
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:35,140
encourage everyone to allow
for this type of research.

1370
01:02:35,190 --> 01:02:37,550
Because what we are seeing
is that those patients

1371
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:40,200
who do use this, again here in California,

1372
01:02:40,250 --> 01:02:44,240
it's been legal medically for
cancer patients for 23 years,

1373
01:02:44,290 --> 01:02:47,210
and those patients overall fare better,

1374
01:02:47,260 --> 01:02:49,700
whether it's lasting longer,

1375
01:02:49,750 --> 01:02:52,130
whether it's a complete cure

1376
01:02:52,180 --> 01:02:55,410
in conjunction with chemo
and radiation and surgery,

1377
01:02:55,460 --> 01:02:57,900
if that's appropriate for the individual,

1378
01:02:57,950 --> 01:03:00,060
or be it that they're just getting

1379
01:03:00,110 --> 01:03:03,460
better quality of life throughout
their cancer treatment,

1380
01:03:03,510 --> 01:03:05,310
we are seeing benefits.

1381
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:09,740
And to undo that, or to not
discuss that with patients,

1382
01:03:09,790 --> 01:03:12,080
would be doing everyone a big harm.

1383
01:03:12,130 --> 01:03:16,780
- I don't want to make
any claims about anything.

1384
01:03:16,830 --> 01:03:18,730
I would say, try it.

1385
01:03:18,780 --> 01:03:21,840
Try it, and get your receptors firing,

1386
01:03:21,890 --> 01:03:24,520
especially if you've never done it,

1387
01:03:24,570 --> 01:03:26,340
especially if you've never tried it.

1388
01:03:26,390 --> 01:03:29,790
If you're older and you
got aches and pains,

1389
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:31,163
and you've never tried it,

1390
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:33,400
start there.

1391
01:03:33,450 --> 01:03:35,766
- It's been two years,
and I've been cancer-free,

1392
01:03:35,816 --> 01:03:39,690
and they just recently
reconstructed the whole

1393
01:03:39,740 --> 01:03:40,570
half of my face.

1394
01:03:40,620 --> 01:03:43,690
So, I still don't have
nerve function or anything,

1395
01:03:43,740 --> 01:03:46,303
but I'm pretty now.

1396
01:03:48,723 --> 01:03:51,620
- I mean there's 61 people that say that

1397
01:03:51,670 --> 01:03:54,850
I helped them get to remission.

1398
01:03:54,900 --> 01:03:58,323
And some I was more
involved with than others.

1399
01:03:59,270 --> 01:04:03,440
Some I wasn't able to give medicine,

1400
01:04:03,490 --> 01:04:06,010
but I gave all the information for them

1401
01:04:06,060 --> 01:04:08,210
to get exactly what they need

1402
01:04:08,260 --> 01:04:12,320
to do the regimen I told them.

1403
01:04:12,370 --> 01:04:14,593
And I count those ones too.

1404
01:04:15,770 --> 01:04:18,880
- Pete is an exceptional individual.

1405
01:04:18,930 --> 01:04:21,964
He has, I don't know if he
learned it from somewhere,

1406
01:04:22,014 --> 01:04:23,450
of if it's just who he is,

1407
01:04:23,500 --> 01:04:25,840
like a wonderful bedside manner,

1408
01:04:25,890 --> 01:04:28,960
and he just knows how to
talk to people, in general,

1409
01:04:29,010 --> 01:04:31,740
and he also knows how to
talk to people who are sick.

1410
01:04:31,790 --> 01:04:34,360
I think that's something
that's really hard to find.

1411
01:04:34,410 --> 01:04:37,120
Most doctors do not have that.

1412
01:04:37,170 --> 01:04:39,320
I think Pete should teach a class,

1413
01:04:39,370 --> 01:04:42,520
and teach them, like this
is how you listen to people.

1414
01:04:42,570 --> 01:04:44,283
- I would like to say that with the way

1415
01:04:44,333 --> 01:04:46,373
that the market is going,

1416
01:04:47,610 --> 01:04:50,990
find a reliable source

1417
01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:55,060
of good medicine.

1418
01:04:55,110 --> 01:04:57,120
You need to find a good source,

1419
01:04:57,170 --> 01:04:59,720
because there's a lot of
people that don't care,

1420
01:04:59,770 --> 01:05:02,300
and they don't care how they make it.

1421
01:05:02,350 --> 01:05:04,880
They don't care what they put in it.

1422
01:05:04,930 --> 01:05:05,850
- I would like them to know

1423
01:05:05,900 --> 01:05:09,180
that they don't have to
feel bad for feeling better.

1424
01:05:09,230 --> 01:05:10,830
When I worked at the collective,

1425
01:05:11,830 --> 01:05:14,476
80% of the time I would spend
with people on the phone,

1426
01:05:14,526 --> 01:05:19,420
was encouraging them to take
control of their own health,

1427
01:05:19,470 --> 01:05:22,450
and to stop feeling
bad for feeling better.

1428
01:05:22,500 --> 01:05:23,820
People have this notion that,

1429
01:05:23,870 --> 01:05:27,177
enjoying the high, or enjoying the THC

1430
01:05:27,227 --> 01:05:28,780
and the effects that it has,

1431
01:05:28,830 --> 01:05:30,120
makes them a bad person.

1432
01:05:30,170 --> 01:05:33,530
And that kills me, because
that are in so much pain,

1433
01:05:33,580 --> 01:05:36,280
and they're being encouraged
to take such horrible medicine,

1434
01:05:36,330 --> 01:05:38,420
with such bad side effects,

1435
01:05:38,470 --> 01:05:42,030
they still are being made to
feel bad for feeling better.

1436
01:05:42,080 --> 01:05:45,220
You know, feel better, take the medicine.

1437
01:05:45,270 --> 01:05:48,160
Just try it, because you
have nothing to lose,

1438
01:05:48,210 --> 01:05:50,833
and what's the worst that can happen?

1439
01:05:52,083 --> 01:05:53,230
You're gonna end up laughing
for a few more minutes

1440
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:54,740
instead of puking your guts out,

1441
01:05:54,790 --> 01:05:58,283
or not being able to go to
the bathroom for a few days.

1442
01:06:03,460 --> 01:06:06,200
- My original dream status was to open

1443
01:06:06,250 --> 01:06:08,241
a cannabis healing center,

1444
01:06:08,291 --> 01:06:11,640
to find a retirement home
that's going out of business,

1445
01:06:11,690 --> 01:06:14,360
and find a way to buy it,

1446
01:06:14,410 --> 01:06:19,410
and make it a world-class
cannabis healing center.

1447
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:24,480
It could also be a detox center,

1448
01:06:24,530 --> 01:06:29,040
and a spa, and a lot of things.

1449
01:06:29,090 --> 01:06:30,390
That would be dream status,

1450
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:34,233
to have a giant healing center.

1451
01:06:35,900 --> 01:06:37,480
I don't want to say like hospice,

1452
01:06:37,530 --> 01:06:40,280
because I'd like to
say the exact opposite,

1453
01:06:40,330 --> 01:06:42,510
the way out of hospice,

1454
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:45,013
a way to not have to go to hospice.

1455
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:49,170
But not all of them
are ever gonna make it,

1456
01:06:49,220 --> 01:06:54,220
but to make it good enough for them,

1457
01:06:55,020 --> 01:06:55,933
on the way out.

1458
01:06:56,980 --> 01:06:58,473
Some of those places suck.

1459
01:06:59,345 --> 01:07:01,050
Have you ever been to a hospice?

1460
01:07:01,100 --> 01:07:02,333
It's horrible man.

1461
01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:06,210
I'm a lucky guy, man.

1462
01:07:07,695 --> 01:07:10,778
(solemn piano music)

1463
01:07:15,830 --> 01:07:19,790
Now, they've changed
the laws in California,

1464
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:22,950
so I opened California Botanicals Direct.

1465
01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:25,160
What I'm doing is I may,

1466
01:07:25,210 --> 01:07:29,060
I have 13 products now,
that I'm putting out,

1467
01:07:29,110 --> 01:07:33,310
and making available
and shipping nationwide,

1468
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:37,210
within the next, way before this is out,

1469
01:07:37,260 --> 01:07:40,000
I'll be shipping nationwide.

1470
01:07:40,050 --> 01:07:44,560
Like I say, try to find a trusted
resource of good medicine.

1471
01:07:44,610 --> 01:07:45,560
I'm in this film,

1472
01:07:45,610 --> 01:07:50,530
because I am a trusted
resource within my community.

1473
01:07:50,580 --> 01:07:55,513
People refer people to me.

1474
01:07:56,500 --> 01:07:57,940
In the cannabis community,

1475
01:07:57,990 --> 01:08:01,170
I'm the one that like people say,

1476
01:08:01,220 --> 01:08:03,623
oh you have someone
that's sick, call Pete.

1477
01:08:04,552 --> 01:08:06,663
Call CDBP, go do that.

1478
01:08:09,693 --> 01:08:10,700
I don't even know how that happened.

1479
01:08:10,750 --> 01:08:13,770
I helped a couple, and
then people saw that,

1480
01:08:13,820 --> 01:08:15,343
and it's just grown and,

1481
01:08:16,580 --> 01:08:17,913
like I say I'm fortunate.

1482
01:08:20,190 --> 01:08:22,190
It's never hurt to give away oil.

1483
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:24,883
If it doesn't hurt, why not help?

1484
01:08:26,140 --> 01:08:29,050
- You know I really appreciate
Pete for what he's done.

1485
01:08:29,100 --> 01:08:32,030
In his interview you can tell,

1486
01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:34,370
he has a servant's heart.

1487
01:08:34,420 --> 01:08:36,170
The man really has love for people,

1488
01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:41,770
and I just feel blessed that
I was able to meet Pete.

1489
01:08:41,820 --> 01:08:43,730
And like he said, the money got tough,

1490
01:08:43,780 --> 01:08:46,840
because people, they do
go through their money

1491
01:08:46,890 --> 01:08:48,640
trying to get well.

1492
01:08:48,690 --> 01:08:50,910
Like I said, it worked for me.

1493
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:55,130
- This woman, had cancer,

1494
01:08:55,180 --> 01:08:58,960
and she was looking on the web,

1495
01:08:59,010 --> 01:09:01,500
and she found Skunk Farm,

1496
01:09:01,550 --> 01:09:06,163
and she interacted with
Gray Wolf, and Carla,

1497
01:09:07,970 --> 01:09:11,310
and they gave her medicine,

1498
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:16,360
and she let her doctor know,
she was gonna try cannabis.

1499
01:09:17,830 --> 01:09:22,830
And her doctor let her
insurance company know,

1500
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:25,380
and her insurance company
called her the next day,

1501
01:09:26,430 --> 01:09:29,337
and said if you test positive for THC,

1502
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:33,330
we will not pay for your chemo.

1503
01:09:33,380 --> 01:09:34,480
So she didn't take it,

1504
01:09:35,430 --> 01:09:39,160
and she went through nine months of chemo,

1505
01:09:39,210 --> 01:09:41,520
until she got to the
point where they're like,

1506
01:09:41,570 --> 01:09:45,020
you know there's nothing we can do.

1507
01:09:45,070 --> 01:09:46,640
Get your affairs in order.

1508
01:09:46,690 --> 01:09:47,770
You're not gonna make it.

1509
01:09:47,820 --> 01:09:52,123
And she remembered that
oil that she had gotten.

1510
01:09:53,810 --> 01:09:55,190
And she started taking it,

1511
01:09:55,240 --> 01:09:57,703
and 90 days later she was in remission.

1512
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:02,523
And she looked me in the
eye and told me that story,

1513
01:10:04,260 --> 01:10:06,973
and it changed my life, actually.

1514
01:10:12,330 --> 01:10:14,503
I didn't believe it was true.

1515
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:22,520
What I knew is, if it was,

1516
01:10:22,570 --> 01:10:24,423
I could save some lives.

1517
01:10:30,236 --> 01:10:31,153
And I have.

1518
01:10:37,350 --> 01:10:40,433
(solemn piano music)